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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Henry C. Dworshak |
| Address |
Burley, Idaho , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
August 29, 1894 |
| Died |
July 23, 1962
(67 years) |
| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | Wishful Thinking
Dec 23, 2003 12:36am |
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| Info | Representative and a Senator from Idaho; born in Duluth, Minn., August 29, 1894; attended the public schools; worked at the printing trade 1909-1918; during the First World War served overseas as a sergeant in the Fourth Antiaircraft Machine Gun Battalion 1918-1919; manager of printers’ supply business in Duluth, Minn., 1920-1924; editor and publisher of the Burley Bulletin in Burley, Idaho, 1924-1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, to November 5, 1946, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in a special election held on November 5, 1946 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Thomas; served from November 6, 1946 to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; appointed to the United States Senate and subsequently elected as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert H. Miller; reelected in 1954 and again in 1960 and served from October 14, 1949, until his death in Washington, D.C., July 23, 1962; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va.
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